Vintilă Ion Constantin Brătianu (; 16 September 1867 – 22 December 1930) was a

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n politician who served as

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between 24 November 1927 and 9 November 1928. He and his brothers Ion I. C. Brătianu and Dinu Brătianu were the leaders of the National Liberal Party of Romania, founded by their father, Ion C. Brătianu.

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Born at his family's estate of ''Florica'', in Ștefănești,

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, Vintilă Brătianu started his studies at Saint Sava High School in

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. He then went to

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to study engineering at

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from 1886 to 1890. After returning to Romania, he entered politics. From 1907 to 1911 he was

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. During

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, he was

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(15 August 1916–19 July 1917) and then Minister for War Munitions. After the war, he served as

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(19 January 1922–9 March 1926) in the Liberal government led by his brother, Ion. After his brother died on 24 November 1927, he assumed the post of Prime Minister of Romania until he was forced to resign a year later to allow the new

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government of Iuliu Maniu to take office. In November 1927 he also assumed the presidency of the National Liberal Party; he remained in that position until the end of his life. On 22 December 1930 Brătianu was at his estate in Mihăești, Vâlcea, when he had a

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which paralyzed his left side; he died that evening at the hospital in nearby

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. He is buried at the family estate, Florica, in a crypt where also lie his father Ion C. Brătianu and his brother Ion I. C. Brătianu, as well as his other brother, Dinu Brătianu, and his nephew, Gheorghe I. Brătianu, both of whom died in the early 1950s at Sighet Prison.

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